265 questions??

TazziRN, RN · Mar 30, 2007

I am not trying to make light of your situation, honest I'm not, but I can't help shaking my head at posts like this. I guess I've been nursing for too long.......

astnm · Mar 31, 2007

I am not sure what the previous poster (Tazzi) was trying to say. I am not in California but I just recently took the NCLEX and passed. After taking the exam I was sure that I had failed. The computer shut off at 75 questions and I went home sure that I had failed. However, I had passed. The wait was killing me as well. I have friends that I graduated with who took all 265 questions and passed. Remember, that it doesn't matter how many questions you take b/c it can go either way. Hang in there. :)

TazziRN, RN · Mar 31, 2007

What I'm referring to is that it makes me smile (not in an unkind way, just in an "if they only knew" way) to hear of today's grads talking about the wait being unbearable, and freaking out about when the computer clicked off.

I'm not trying to be mean, honest. I guess it's akin to your parents or grandparents telling you "When I was your age......"

TiffyRN, BSN, PhD · Mar 31, 2007

Yea, as in tested in Feb., was still waiting results until early June. . .

I was amused when I recently read about a service the GN's can pay to find out the results of their tests even quicker, was it 48hrs?

One kind of positive side effect about the old system was that GN's that had failed (but of course didn't know they failed) got to work as GN's at new grad pay for several months until they got their results.

Good luck on your results; having read countless threads like this in this forum I can tell you that the number of questions is irrelevant. Course, back in the caveman days (14yrs ago) everybody took two days of testing regardless. . .

bagladyrn, RN · Mar 31, 2007

What I'm referring to is that it makes me smile (not in an unkind way, just in an "if they only knew" way) to hear of today's grads talking about the wait being unbearable, and freaking out about when the computer clicked off.
I'm not trying to be mean, honest. I guess it's akin to your parents or grandparents telling you "When I was your age......"

Tazzi - I had the same smile on reading this...starting to feel like a dinosaur here....

MedSurgeNewbie · Mar 31, 2007

Please Dont take this as fact, but I think I remember in my prep class that some people get all 265 as a way to track the questions, I ran it past my friend in the same prep class and she said she remembered it too.. Might not be "bad" news - Hope you get your result soon

Silverdragon102, BSN · Mar 31, 2007

I passed on 265 so really keeping my fingers crossed for you

charlies · Mar 31, 2007

Please Dont take this as fact, but I think I remember in my prep class that some people get all 265 as a way to track the questions, I ran it past my friend in the same prep class and she said she remembered it too..

The rumor is that out of every group of test takers, one will get all 265 questions. This is not true, according to their web site.

Anyway, hang in there, your results will arrive soon enough. I think the source of frustration is not so much the length of time it takes to get the results, as it is that classmates have already gotten their results. Regardless of whether it takes 2 weeks or 2 years (for you dinosaurs out there) to score the test, if your classmates have gotten their results and you have not, it is going to be frustrating.

TazziRN, RN · Mar 31, 2007

Regardless of whether it takes 2 weeks or 2 years (for you dinosaurs out there) to score the test, if your classmates have gotten their results and you have not, it is going to be frustrating.

This wasn't the point. I understand the frustration when your classmates have results and you don't.

Never mind. Obviously I'm too old to understand.

arizonanurse · Mar 31, 2007

I just took my NCLEX last June, and I already smile when I see these posts. Same with the posts that complain about the "mean" nursing instructors and the RNs at clinical that (gasp) don't wash their hands before and after going into every patient room. Kind of in a "they're worried about that...they really have NO IDEA what they're getting into" kind of way. Yet that was me less than a year ago. I still can't believe I was so naive about what nursing really was like when I started my first job. But that's another subject...

arizonanurse · Mar 31, 2007

I wanted to add...to the OP, I know what you're going through, and the wait is agonizing. I've been there, and it is not fun. But before you know it you'll be working as a nurse, and these few days will seem like years ago. At least we don't have to wait six weeks like you dinosaurs did :)